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Too Many Elements…?
I’ve been plowing through books again and right now, I’m on Sir Ken Robinson’s The Element. Well rooted in this TED video…
Now, this video has virtually become one of the borderline cliché videos in the education forefront. Everyone knows about it or has seen it.
But the book is a much more deeper analysis of many, [...] -
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Full Course Ahead
Chef Anthony Bourdain is a pretty damn good TV host. No Reservations is one of those TV shows I hate to miss. Exotic locatons, food, a little humor. It’s all goo.
But it turns out he’s a pretty damn good writer too. Bourdain’s autobiography and kitchen exposé of sorts, Kitchen Confidential, is an excellent piece of [...] -
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Lots of Complaining, Few Solutions
So, it’s been like 5 months since I finished Mark Bauerlein’s The Dumbest Generation.
And this is what I got out of the Bank Gothic decorated book…The recent batch of Americans are dumb because they don’t read (their talkin bout what?).
They’re inexplicably proud of their illiteracy (”Books are old! GOOGLE BAY-BEH!”).
The Internet made information easier to [...] -
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The Pursuit of Happiness
It’s not often known, but the pursuit of happiness typically refers to the pursuit of material wealth. But Thomas Jefferson used this phrase to include other important things, such as, say, civil rights.
Anyways…
A while back, I tripped on my friend’s blog post about a career guide gone manga. The book seemed interesting enough that I [...] -
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Iz I Dum?
So, a new book has come out. Classic curmudgeoning of the burgeoning youth known as the ‘digital natives’.
Reading has gone away! Our generation is of idiots!
I have wandered into Mark Bauerlein’s The Dumbest Generation.
American youth have stopped reading at a precipitous rate. Bauerlein argues that the digital natives have become complacent and are preoccupied by [...]
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